after the history. high drama. >> i move that hillary clinton be selected. >> and high emotion of last night -- >> the ayes have it! >> we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet. >> tonight, what will the demo well, get ready, america, because in just minutes, the president. >> this isn't even a choice. you've got to vote for hillary clinton. >> and the man who wants to be your next vice president. >> let's go make history. are you with her? >> take to the spotlight and make their case for hillary clinton to be your next president. >> hillary got me fired up! >> from abc news, this is the democratic national convention, live from philadelphia.

>> good evening. welcome to philadelphia. president obama in the spotlight tonight. the last big political speech of his presidency. set to make the case for hillary clinton as the best qualified candidate for president in our history. v.p. nominee tim kaine takes the stage in just minutes, but the big news so far today has been made by donald trump. injecting some drama into day three of this democratic convention, by appearing to encourage russia to spy on hillary clinton. >> russia, if you're i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded might ily by our press. let's see if that happens. >> democrats pounced, led by vice president biden, who law ched this broadside against trump just moments ago from the podium. >> no major party, no major party nominee in the history of this nation has ever known less

we cannot elect a man who exploits our fears of isis and other terrorists, who has no plan whatsoever to make us safer. >> i'm here with our whole team including chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz. other democrats today, leon panetta, said what trump did today was unprecedented. >> absolutely. her senior policy adviser saying, this has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. this is perfect timing for the democrats. donald trump has been hammering hillary clinton on her e-mails, on her foreign policy decisions, now, the tables are turned. >> mr. trump later said he was trying to encourage russia from

>> absolutely. paul ryan said pew tutin shouldy out of this election. a former official said this was tantamount to treason. >> and vice president biden told me yesterday, he thought vladimir putin was trying to hurt hillary clinton. we are expecting tim kaine on the stage any minute. he's the running mate. senator from virginia. >> b the story yesterday that was different, and it was you. your spirit of, even in a dark day, of optimism and community and hope. >> cecilia vega, as we watch this video right here, tim kaine always appeared to be hillary clinton's first choice for vice president. but she doesn't know him all that well. >> she doesn't, george. he rose to the top of the pack out of 24 candidates. he woez very quirose very quick. she liked his national security experience and foreign policy experience. but we're told that she ended up

like she's got with him. an aide gave hillary clinton some advise when she was looking for this vice president, he said, you want to walk into a room and be glad to see the person that you're running with and make sure this person can be in every conversation that you have. she has that in tim kaine, that relationship, though, is a new one and seems to be growing. >> matt dowd, we saw that chemistry when he was introduced first on saturday, expecting to see some of that again today. hard hits on donald trump. >> absolutely. he looks like's campaign in the course of this. >> let's watch. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next vice president of the united states, senator tim kaine. >> tim kaine, senator from virginia, also been governor, lieutenant governor. mayor of richmond, city council

his entire adult life in public service and politics. >> david muir, first choice of hillary clinton, not first choice of everyone in these delegations over the last three days. >> no question, george. on day one, when they announced the ticket during the roll call, there were boos in the case, his father owned a metal working shop, his mother, a home economics teacher. he'll make the case that he is the middle class. that's where he came from. >> biggest audience he's ever had. >> thank you, everybody! hello, philadelphia! hello, democratic family.

three wonderful children, nat, woody and annella, they're sitting right up there. you know, my son, nat, deployed with his marine battalion just two days ago. he -- he deployed overseas to protect and defend allies that donald trump says he now wants to abandon. semper fi, nat! semper fi. my parents and my inlaws are here, our siblings and their spouses. our nieces and nephews. and hundreds of friends from

seeing you front and center. including my friend of 37 years, senior senator mark warner, my great governor, terry mcauliffe. and my great friend and congressman, bobby scott. we love you all. anne, and every strong woman in this country, for nat, woody and annella, and every young person starting out in life to make their own dreams real, for every man and woman serving our country in the military, at home or abroad, for every working family working hard to get ahead and stay ahead, for my parents

citizen who hopes for a dignified retirement with health care and research to end diseases like alzheimer's, for every american who wants our country to be a beloved community where people aren't demeaned because of who they are, but rather respected for their contributions to this nation and know that the brightest future for our country is the one that we build together and for my friend, hillary clinton, i humbly accept my party's nomination to be vice president of the united states.

can i -- can i be honest with you about something? can i be honest with you about something? i never expected to be here. but let me tell you how it happened. i was born in minnesota and grew up in kansas city. my folks weren't much into politics. my dad ran a union iron working shop in the stockyards. and my mom -- and my mom was his best salesman. my two brothers and i pitched in

family businesses do it. my parents, al and kathy, here tonight and going strong, they taught me about hard work and about kindness, and most especially, about faith. i went to a jesuit boy's high school. wow, that's a big line for the jesuits. we had a motto in my school, men for others. became something vital. my north star for orienting my life. and when i left high school, i knew that i wanted to battle for social justice. like so many of you. like so many of you. that's why i took a year off from law school to volunteer with jesuit missionaries in honduras. i taught kids how to be welders

[ speaking spanish ] faith, family and work. faith, family and work. [ speaking spanish ] and let me tell you what really struck me there, i got a first-hand look at a different system. a dictatorship. a dictatorship, where a few people at the top had all the power, and everybody else got left out. now, that convinced me that we've got to advance opportunity for everybody, no matter where you come from, how much money

back in 1970, in virginia, a republican governor named linwood holton believed exactly the same thing. he integrated virginia's public schools so that black and white kids could finally learn together and then, the family including his daughter, anne, in those integrated inner city schools. many years later, anne went off to college and she brought those lessons from that pivotal time with her, and then, one day, in a study group, she met this goofy guy who had been off teaching kids in honduras -- well -- anne and i have now been married almost 32 years, and i am the luckiest husband in the

you know, let me tell you something, anne's parents, lin and jinks, are here today, 90-plus and going strong. 90-plus and going strong. linwood holton, he's still a republican, but he's voting for an awful lot of democrats these an awful lot of democrats. and here's why. he's voting for democrats because any party that would nominate donald trump for president has moved too far away from his party of lincoln. and i tell you, if any of you are looking for that party of lincoln, we've got a home for

linwood's example helped inspire me. over 17 years, i took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly. i had a six-year case against an insurance company that was discriminating against minority neighborhoods all across t homeowner's insurance. folks, democratic friends, these are the battles that i have fought my entire life. and that's the story. and that's the story of how i decided to run for office. my city of richmond was divided and discouraged in the early 1990s. we had an epidemic of gun

people were pointing fingers and casting blame instead of finding answers. and i couldn't stand it. so, i ran for city council and i won that first race more than 20 years ago, by a landslide margin of 94 votes. and i've said ever since, if i'm going at anything in politics, it's because i started at the local level, listening to peo people, learning about their and trying to get results. i see a mayor here who knows what i'm talking about. later, i became mayor of richmond, lieutenant governor, and then, the 70th governor of virginia. now, i was a hard times governor. i had to steer my state through

don't last, and tough people do. and, can i tell you that virginians are tough people? we are tough people. and we're smart, too. we achieved national recognition for our work, best managed state, best state for business. best state for a child to be raised. low unemployment, high median income. we shed we shed tears especially together in the days after that horrible mass shooting at virginia tech that killed 32 people from beautiful 19-year-old students to 70-pl 70-plus-year-old holocaust survivors. and we shed tears and held each other up, but afterwards, we rolled up our sleeves and we

commonwealth safer, and we've got to do that in the nation. we invested in our people, expanding pre-k and higher ed, because we all know in this room that education is the key to all we want to be. all we want to be. and now, i have the honor of representing my commonwealth in the u.s. senate. i work on the armed services and foreign relations committ t keep us safe at home and strong in the world. i work on the budget committee with our great democratic leader of that committee, a spectacular senator who used to be a mayor,

all should feel the bern, and we all should not want to get burned by the other guy. on that budget committee under bernie's leadership, we fight for investments in education, health care, research, transportation, and i also serve on the aging committee, to make sure that seniors like my folks have a secure retirement and don't get targeted by rip-off artists who will scam them out of their savings or overcharge them for prescription drugs.

can i tell you a funny thing about the senate? that sounds like a yes, i spent a lot -- i spend a lot of time with republican senators who, once they have made sure that nobody is listening, will tell you how fantastic a senator that hillary clinton was. now, look. this journey that i've told you about has convinced me -- has convinced me over and over again that god has created in our country a beautiful and rich that pes try, an incredibly cultural diversity that suck seeds when we embrace everybody in love and battle back against the forces, the dark forces of division. we're all neighbors.

now, hillary clinton and i -- [ speaking spanish ] and we -- we share this basic belief, it's simple. do all the good you can and serve one another. that's what i'm about. that's what you're about. that's what bernie sanders is about. that's what joe and jill biden are about. that's what barack and michelle obama are about. and that's what hillary clinton

now -- si yes we can. yes we can. cleveland, we heard a lot about trust. so let's talk about trust. let's talk about trust. i want to tell you why i trust hillary clinton. first, she's consistent.

in good times and bad, in victory and defeat, in and out of office, through hell or high water, fighting for underprivileged kids, working at the children's defense fund, fighting to get health insurance for 8 million low income children when she was first lady. fighting for the well being of women and children around the world. hey, can i offer you a little tip? when you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that began long before they were in office and that they have consistently held it throughout their career. do they have a passion? did it start before they were in

folks, hillary has a passion for kids and families. donald trump has a passion, too. it's himself. and with hillary, it's not just words, it's accomplishments. she delivers. as senator, after 9/11, i got my new yorkers right here and my she battled. she battled congressional republicans to care for the first responders who went into the towers, who went into the pentagon and saved the victims of those terrorist attacks. as secretary of state, she implemented tough sanctions against iran, to pave the way for a diplomatic breakthrough to curtail a nuclear weapons program. and she wasn't afraid.

she wasn't afraid to stand up against thugs and dictators, and as a key part of the obama national security team, they decided to go to the ends of the earth to wipe out osama bin laden. hey, do you all -- do you all remember, carla, the little girl that we heard from on monday nigh who was worried that her parents would be deported? carla said, she trusts hillary to keep them together. and do you remember the mothers of the movement last night? they said, they trust hillary to

daughters, safe. and on a personal level, as he's serving our nation abroad, i trust hillary clinton with our son's life. now, you know who i don't trust? i wonder. donald trump. donald trump. trump is a guy who promises a lot, but you might have noticed, he's got a way of saying the same two words every time he makes his biggest, hugest promises. believe me. it's going to be great. believe me. we're going to build a wall and

we're going to destroy isis so fast, believe me. there's nothing suspicious in my tax returns, believe me. by the way, does anybody in this massive donald trump's been paying his fair share of taxes? does anybody here believe that trump ought to release his tax returns just like every other presidential candidate in modern history? of course he should. hey, donald, what are you hiding?

says, believe me. believe me. believe me? believe me? i mean, here's the thing. most people, when they run for president, they don't just say, believe me. they respect you enough to tell you how they will get things done. i mean, that's -- that's what most people who run for president do. in fact, you can go on hillaryclinton.com right now and find out exactly how she'll make the biggest investment in new jobs in a generation. how she'll defend and build on wall street reform. how she'll reform our immigration system to create a path to citizenship. how she'll make it possible to graduate from college debt-free.

roe v. wade, guarantee equal pay for women. all it takes is one click. all it takes is one click. and we can see how she'll do it, how she'll pay for it and how we'll benefit by it. not donald trump. not donald trump. he never items ytells you how h going to do any of the says he'll do. he just says, believe me. so here's the question. here's the question. do you really belie donald trump's whole career say, you better not. small contractors, companies just like my dad's, believed him. believed him. when he said that he'd pay them

city. they did the work. they hung the drywall. they poured the concrete. but a year after opening, trump filed for bankruptcy, he walked away with millions, and they got pennies on the dollar, some of them went out of business, all because they believed donald trump. retirees and families in flor florida, they believe build them some condos. thousands of them. they paid their deposits. but the condos, they were never built. he just pocketed their money and walked away. they lost tens of thousands of dollars, all because, they believed donald trump. charity after charity believed donald trump when he said he would contribute to them. and thousands of trump

they got stiffed. he says, believe me, well, his creditors, his contractors, his laid off employees and his ripped off students did just that and they all got hurt. folks, you cannot believe one word that comes not one word. not one word. not one word. and i'll tell you -- and i'll tell you, to me -- to me, it

is just too great to put it in the hands of a slick-talking, empty promising self-promoting one-man wrecking crew. but don't -- don't take it from me. don't take it from me. take it from former first lady barbara bush. know how any woman could vote for him after his offensive comments about women. any woman. any woman. or john mccain's chief economic adviser during the '08 race, who estimates that trump's promises would cause america to lose 3.5 million jobs. or the independent analysts who

the biggest corporations, would wrack up $30 trillion in debt. or how about this? how about this? john kasich, the republican governor who had the honor of hosting the republican convention in cleveland, but he wouldn't even attend it because he thinks donald trump is such a moral disaster. or take it from the guy who co-wrote donald trump's autobiography. here's what he said about trump, quote, lying is second nature to him. so, do you believe him? i don't know, how about on this side, do you guys believe him?

who believes him? the next president will face many challenges, we better elect the candidate who has proven she can be trusted with the job. the candidate who has proven that she is ready for the job. and when i say ready, ise when i lived in honduras, i learned something. the best compliment that you could pay to somebody with us to say that they were listo. ready. not inteligente, smart. not amable, friendly. not rico, rich. but listo. listo. because what listo means in spanish is this.

battle-tested, it means rock solid, up for anything, never backing down and, friends, hillary clinton, she's lista. hillary clinton is lista. she is ready. she is ready, she's ready because of her faith. she's ready because of her heart. she's ready because of her because she knows that in america, we are stronger when we are together. my fellow democrats, this week, we start the next chapter in our great and proud story. thomas declared all men were equal, and abigail remembered the women. wo woodrow brokered the peace and

jack told us what to ask and lyndon answered the call. martin had a dream. and harvey gave his life. bill built a bridge into the 21st century and barack gave us hope, and now, hillary is ready, she's ready to fight. she's ready to win. and she is ready to lead. god bless all of you. and thank you, philadelphia. >> rousing finish there for vice presidential nominee tim kaine. brought the crowd to its feet. started out a real earnest tone as he introduced himself to the american people. talked about his commitments to social justice. earnest when he vouched for hillary clinton, said he trusted her. tone remarkable shift when he started to talk about imitated donald trump, not exactly "saturday night live"

gusto. >> as i said, he is going to be her enforcer. he's going to make donald trump pay for any words he says, any promises he makes in the course of this. i think a much different role than mike pence is going to have to a degree in the course of this. but it's going to be a fighter. >> just on the stage now with his wife anne, who just resigned as secretary of education in virginia, and cecilia vega, we saw another reason that hillary clinton picked tim kaine, probably the first given by a vice presidential nominee. >> he speaks spanish. he started speaking spanish five minutes into the speech. and i thought it was a spanish lesson out there. he would throw a word out and translate it. at one point, he had the whole hall chanting. he said we are all americans, and hillary clinton is looking for an attack dog in her running mate. we've ben seeing that. clearly tim kaine is going to play attack dog on immigration.

when it comes to latinos and as we know, a record number of latinos eligible to vote this year. >> terry moran, also on the floor, he spoke directly to bernie sanders and his supporters, but did face some protest. >> he did, george. the sanders delegates, 40% of the degree gases here, they are like a live wire running on the floor of this convention and every once in awhile, they rise up and jolt the pace. during the speech, anti-tpp, ey california delegation, a lot of the delegates way up in the rafters. during leon panetta's speech, they interrupted loudly, they took over the convention for a moment, chanting "no more war," "lies," he had to struggle through the protest. they're here. they're still here. they aren't going anywhere. and they're making their presence known. >> okay, terry, thank you. the big speaker of the night,

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welcome back to philadelphia. here again is george stephanopoulos. >> and we are back now at the democratic convention, waiting for president barack obama to take the stage. i'm here with jon karl. you covered obama the entire second term. we know that hillary clinton needs barack obama to be for her, but he needs her to win to secure what he considers his achievements. >> no question about it. the barack obama legacy is on the line in this election. if republi the environment, on immigration, the whole climate agreement, republicans would disavow the iran deal. his legacy is on the line here. a lot of it can be undone on day one with executive orders, others by signing what the republican congress would pass. he will be campaigns at if he was a third term. >> he's going to be out there all fall.

third time. >> and martha raddatz, what you're going to see from president barack obama, much like what president bill clinton did four years ago for barack obama, as commander in chief, vouching for hillary clinton. >> it would be hard to top tim kaine's line, however, he said, i trust hillary clinton with my son's life, as he said, his son is a marine, now deployed. truth is, hillary clinton, when she first came into the senate, armed services committee, studied the military all the time. she was meeting with senior she knows the military well, in fact, she is far more experienced with the military, with foreign policy and certath certainly her husband was. >> david muir on the floor, they're playing a video on president obama, the president far more popular than either hillary clinton or donald trump, and, of course, secretary clinton hoping some of that rubs off on her. >> absolutely. and the numbers say it all. 56% in our latest polling as far as that approval rating. that's the highest point since

in the room here, it is dark, and it is quiet. this audience is waiting for president obama, and it is 12 years ago to the day, george, that president obama spoke at that democratic convention, little known at the time, and it was those words about red states versus blue states and that we are the united states, that helped catapult him to the national stage, ultimately, beating hillary clinton and then so much talk about him wanting that team of rye values, after abraham lincoln, bringing her on as secretary of state, where he will take that stage, 56% approval rating and hillary clinton hoping that her one-time rival will now help her as we've watched this partnership grow over these last nearly eight years. >> david muir, thank you. president obama right now, about as popular as ronald reagan was when he helped george h.w. bush win in 1988. what's fighting that is the fact that so many americans think the country is going in the wrong direction. >> that's a unique circumstance. the vast majority of the country

to, that barack obama is going to have to find a sweet spot tonight. it's sort of the goldilocks moment, between not too hot and not too cold. he needs to talk to people's fears, but bring up the inspiration. >> i want to bring pierre thomas in on that, because the president has not been able to hide his contempt for donald trump. it goes way back, ever since donald trump questioned if he was born in the united states. for the president, this is personal. >> i know some sources who talked about how he hated this notion of his legitimacy bei essential. also, we were all at that white house correspondents dinner when donald trump was mocked by the president. eviscerated during that dinner, so, it's personal for both. >> terry moran, we can expect the president in several points tonight to take down donald trump, perhaps not with the same tone as the white house correspondents dinner. >> no, i don't think he'll do that though that was a good time. he will try to refute the notion that america needs to be made great again. it's been a theme of this

actually gets angry when people say that the country isn't great right now. we heard it from michelle obama, we'll hear it from the president. and one more thing, george, so many of the delegates here joined his campaign in 2008, they were delegates in 2008, 2012. just tremendous emotion from them as this remarkable political journey comes to the close. >> they heard earlier this evening from a former republican, now an inme den pent, former mayor of new york, mike took off hard on trump as a fellow new yorker. let's listen. >> trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running his business? god help us. i'm a new yorker. and i know a con when i see one. >> matthew dowd, not many swing

>> you know, he was pursued and thought about a race for the presidency early on and he wanted to run, now he's obvious ly supporting hillary clinton. the only reason he's supporting hillary clinton out of fear at donald trump as commander in chief. >> all right, we're going to take one more break. president obama is next. we'll be right back. abc news live coverage of e convention will return in a

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stephanopoulos. >> and we are back at the democratic convention, president obama just minutes away. cecilia vega down on the floor. the crowd watching that video right now. we talked about what president obama needs from hillary clinton. she's hoping for a lot from him, as well, on the campaign trail. her numbers started to rise after his endorse pt. >> that's true. tonight, she's hoping he will make this case, again speaking from personal experience, that he knows her as a viral, as a friend, as someone who worked with her d that raid on osama bin laden. you are hear about their time together in the white house. they want this narrative to be from bill clinton to michelle obama to the president now talking about people who know hillary clinton, a different side of her that america hasn't seen. >> jon karl, president obama was up until 3:30 in the morning, rewriting this speech, expectations are high. >> the obama alumni on the clinton team are doing nothing to downplay the expectations. they are expecting one of the

tonight. >> and martha raddatz, you've been on the road, ever since the republican convention, went from dallas to cleveland, cleveland to here, speaking to voters. what is getting through to them right now? >> i think donald trump's messaging is breaking through to those voters. they do talk about benghazi, they do talk about e-mails, all the things that hillary clinton does not want to talk about. and trust remains an issue. i talked to a lot of voters who had voted for obama, they said they want a change, they don't trust hillary clinton a t >> you saw tim kaine repeating that word, trust, again and again. and matthew dowd, we did see donald trump get a pretty solid bounce out of his convention. >> yes, if you look at the polls leading in and the polls out today, he's even or slightly ahead of hillary clinton, and i know they need to get a bounce out of this convention. it's going to depend on tonight and it's going to depend on hillary clinton's speech tomorrow night. these are the two things that are going to get her the bounce that she needs. >> david muir, the crowd is

>> they are. they are riveted by essentially what is the resume of barack obama, as the president. this is his legacy right here in front of this crowd. and as you mentioned, hillary clinton hoping that his approval rating rubs off on her. as we listen to the campaign, the debates, the hard-fought debates with bernie sanders, hillary clinton said so many times that she did not believe that president obama was getting deserves, and she likely meant that, but we also knew at the time that she was hoping the progress and success he has had would rub off on her and she would also get credit for the time she shared with him within the oval office, and i can't help but to miss out that the images in this video, george, over your shoulder, include so many images with hillary clinton in them. that moment when they made the call on osama bin laden inside

moment they made that decision. and so many other images of these two working together, the friendship that they forms and really the bond. >> it has become a real bond. and now, we see president obama. >> welcome the 44th president of the united states of america, barack obama. >> crowd rising up. pierre thomas, hard to believe it's only bnl 12 years since his introduction to the national stage. down played race as he was first running for president. becoming more vocal, more open, speaking as an african-american

of his presidency. >> yes. and it will be interesting to see if he follows his wife's lead, who talked about, monday night, of being an african-american couple, living in a white house built by slaves. be interesting if he goes there. >> emotional high point of this convention so far. the president has already said that she's given the best speech of this convention. he can't top it. but we know he's a pretty competitive guy. >> that 3:00 a.m. rewrite came after he saw her speech. >>et >> thank you! thank you. thank you! thank you. thank you so much. thank you, everybody. thank you.

thank you so much, everybody. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you. thank i love you back.

so, 12 years ago tonight, i addressed this convention for the very first time. you met my two little girls, malia and sasha. now two amazing young women who just fill you fell for my brilliant wife and partner, michelle. who has made me a better father and a better man, who has gone on to inspire our nation as first lady. and who somehow hasn't aged a

i know, the same cannot be said for me. my girls remind me all the time. wow, you've changed so much, daddy. and then they try to clean it up. not bad, just, more mature. and it's true. i was so young that first time in boston. and, look, i'll admit it, maybe i was a little nervous, addressing such a big crowd. but i was filled with faith. faith in america. the generous, big-hearted, hopeful country that made my story, that made all of our

a lot's happened over the years. and while this nation has been tested by war and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges, i stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you i am more on mi on mystic about the future of america than ever how could i not be? after all that we've achieved together. after the worst recession in 80 years, we fought our way back. we've seen deficits come down, 401(k)s recover, an auto industry set new records, unemployment reach eight-year

15 million new jobs. after a century of trying, we declared that health care in america is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. after decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves we doubled our production of clean energy. we brought more of our troops home to their families. and we delivered justice to osama bin laden. through diplomacy, we shut down iran's nuclear weapons program. we opened up a new chapter with the people of cuba.

together around a climate agreement that could save this planet for our children. we put policies in place to help students with loans, protect consumers from fraud, cut veterans homelessness almost in half. and through countless acts of quiet courage, america learned that love has no limits, and marriage equality is now a reality across the land. by so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started. and through every victory, and every setback, i've insisted